Jérôme Pineau

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Jérôme Pineau Road cycling
Jérôme Pineau (2014)
Jérôme Pineau (2014)
To person
Date of birth 2nd January 1980
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Street
height 1.76 m
Racing weight 65 kg
To the team
Current team B&B Hotels-Vital Concept
function Team manager
Team (s)
2002
2003–2004
2005–2008
2009–2011
2012–2013
2014–2015 		Bonjour
Brioches La Boulangère
Bouygues Télécom
Quick Step
Omega Pharma-Quick Step
IAM Cycling
Most important successes
Last updated: July 16, 2017

Jérôme Pineau (born January 2, 1980 in Mont-Saint-Aignan ) is a former French cyclist and later team manager of a cycling team . Among other things, he won the Tour de l'Ain 2004 and a stage at the Giro d'Italia 2010 .

Athletic career

Jérôme Pineau at the 2012 Tour de France .

In his youth, Pineau also played football and only switched completely to cycling at the age of 17. In 1999 he joined the Vendée U cycling team , the farm team of Jean-René Bernaudeau's Bonjour team at the time . In 2002 Pineau moved from Vendée U to the professional squad of Bonjour . In the same year he was able to win the Normandy Tour . In the same racing team, which has been performing under the name Brioches La Boulangère since 2003 , he won the Polynormande in 2003 and won a stage in the Tour de l'Ain; in the overall standings he was in third place behind Axel Merckx and Samuel Dumoulin .

In the 2004 season, Pineau again took part in the Tour de l'Ain. He laid the foundation for the eventual overall victory by winning the first stage of this four-stage race. In the same season he also won the Clásica de Almería and was successful on a stage from Paris-Bourges . At the end of the season, he was the best-placed Frenchman in the UCI world rankings .

From 2002 to 2014 Pineau took part in every Tour de France . The best place in the overall classification was achieved in 2004 with rank 27, after making his debut in 2002 in 87th place. In 2005 he was still in the Bernaudeau team, which was now called Bouygues Télécom . He finished the Tour of France this year as 43rd. A year later he took part in the Vuelta a España for the first time in addition to the tour in which he led the mountain classification for seven days , but could not complete it and left the eleventh stage. For the next three years, Pineau concentrated again exclusively on the Tour de France, but also took part, for example, in Paris – Nice and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (road race; 13th place). At the beginning of the 2009 season, Pineau switched to the Belgian Quick Step Cycling Team .

During his first Giro participation in 2010, Pineau saved himself in a breakaway group just ahead of the sprinters as the first stage across the finish line of the fifth stage, making him the first Frenchman since Christophe Le Mével in 2005 to win a Giro stage. In a subsequent interview, he stated that he had suffered from depression for years due to a lack of success. During the following Tour de France 2010 , he took the lead in the mountain classification on the second stage and then wore the dotted jersey of the leader of this classification for eight stages. He no longer played a role in the mountain final classification.

The next few years were less successful for Pineau: he was still able to win the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens in 2011 , but in the Giro and Tour he ended up clearly in the back of the field and in 2013 even finished tenth from the Tour de France. For the 2014 season, Pineau joined the Swiss cycling team IAM together with his compatriot Sylvain Chavanel . He drove for Captain Chavanel on the Tour of France in 2014 and finished 58th in the final ranking.

At the end of 2015, Pineau ended his cycling career.

Professional

In July 2017, Pineau announced that it would build a new French UCI Continental team around rider Bryan Coquard . The aim is to take part in the UCI WorldTour after three years .

successes

2002

2003

2004

2010

2011

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - 58 84 - 124 - DNF
Yellow jersey Tour de France 87 71 27 43 83 68 38 88 66 54 112 159 58 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - DNF - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Jérôme Pineau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jérôme Pineau. In: iamcycling.ch. IAM Cycling, accessed August 23, 2014 .
  2. ^ Christian Grégoire: Le 13e Tour de Jérôme Pineau. In: francetvsport.fr. July 18, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Jean-François Quénet: Pineau experienced depression before returning as a winner. In: cyclingnews.com. May 13, 2010, accessed August 23, 2014 .
  4. ^ Bertrand Latour: Transfer - Jérôme Pineau: "Un grand merci à Sylvain". In: cyclismactu.net. August 22, 2013, accessed August 23, 2014 (French).
  5. ↑ From Basso to Veikkanen - who will be missing from the peloton in 2016. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed December 27, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Pineau to establish new French team as of 2018. In: Cycling News. July 16, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pineau, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-Saint-Aignan , France